His fingers eased through her hair that was delicately laced with flowers, and she leaned back against his touch.
He knew himself to be awkward to things like this as Eduard had always been better at technology than with people yet Katyusha seemed to crave and savor his touch.
She gave to him more of herself in the way that her soul and heart ran; her tears were dried and comforted by him.
Love was what they, both, desired and fulfillment of that was both surprising and new.
She kept him from losing contact with the world beyond his computer, and he helped her hold her head up high when she wanted to crumble and to break.
He loved her; Eduard wanted her for more than what the physical world may see and for more than he was sure that his friends saw.
Eduard loved her dainty and very much ladylike personality, and she loved his emotional strength and even his nerdiness.
Their family and friends may have saw many things when they looked at them; perhaps they saw the nerd with a hot chick or too hopelessly lacking in social ability paired up with each other against the world, but they saw each other.
They knew each other despite every potential fault and every failing flaw.
Eduard and Katyusha saw both, good and bad, in each other; they saw each other truly.
The Estonian and the Ukrainian loved each other beyond words and silly, little, misconstruyed sounds; they loved the little things and the big things.
They loved each other for all of them and would continue to love each other through every obstacle; they couldn't be happier.